Built in 1938 as a 350-seat theater, the Avalon's most significant feature is its Art Deco detailing, especially the marquee, box office, and entry doors and continuing with simple Art Deco geometry motifs in the interior, all of which has survived.

The building is constructed of brick with a parabolic poured concrete floor in the seating area to ensure a good view for all.

It is part of a vanishing genre of small town movie houses, and is the only remaining Art Deco building in Larimore.

[2] The site of the Avalon Theatre was originally occupied by the Arnold Block, a two-story 75 by 100 ft. brick building with cut stone trimmings.

Horace F. Arnold commissioned architect Joseph Bell DeRemer to design the building and it was completed in 1905.